The incident of cat abuse has entered the field of public opinion, and many people will naturally think of strengthening animal protection legislation to fill the gap in animal protection.

Such a voice has a broad public opinion base. At the professional level, many legal professionals have called for animal protection legislation before, including many NPC representatives.

The embarrassment of the existing laws is that no law can be perfectly applied to punish animal cruelty. Although there is a crime of "deliberately destroying property" in the criminal law, it is limited to animals that abuse others.

Moreover, the threshold of this crime is high, and the value of abused animals is less than 5,000 yuan, so they can only be fined or administratively detained according to the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment. Obviously, such deterrence cannot fundamentally stop animal cruelty.

Another possible crime of cruelty to animals is the crime of stirring up trouble. One of the acts of provoking trouble is "making trouble in public places, causing serious disorder in public places", which means that some acts of openly abusing small animals in public places or on the Internet may touch this charge, but it may be difficult to hold people accountable for those more personal abuses.

It is necessary to amend the law to prevent cruelty to small animals. At this stage, it is necessary for legal institutions to fully investigate and demonstrate the feasibility of legislation on special animal protection, and the social and legal conditions are completely mature, so it is appropriate to put relevant matters on the legislative agenda. The legislative conditions are not yet mature, and it is necessary to amend the law to repair the legal loopholes in animal protection.

For example, we can consider amending the criminal law and adding crimes such as "cruelty to animals" and "abandonment of animals" to limit cruelty to animals.